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The Pentagon is scrapping its old playbook for defending against small drones, moving beyond years of evaluations and studies<\/a> toward a model that comes with new money and authority geared to field capability faster, according to a Thursday memo from the defense secretary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The directive from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the formation of the Joint Interagency Task Force 401 (JIATF 401) to \u201cbetter align authorities and resources to rapidly deliver [joint counter-small unmanned aircraft system] capabilities to America\u2019s warfighters, defeat adversary threats and promote sovereignty over national airspace,\u201d the memo states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hegseth also directed the Army secretary to disestablish the Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office, or JCO, which was created in 2019 and led by the Army. It will cease to exist once JTIAF 401 is established, the memo notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The unit that blends operational, acquisition and interagency roles under a single command will be empowered with procurement authority, flexible funding and streamlined personnel authorities, operating under the oversight of the deputy secretary of defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The move comes as U.S. forces in the Middle East and Eastern Europe face increasingly sophisticated drone swarms from state and non-state actors. Cheap, disposable quadcopters and fixed-wing models have been used to knock out armored vehicles, overwhelm air defense and harass bases at a fraction of the cost of defending against them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukraine\u2019s daring drone attacks against Russian warplanes on Russian soil in Operation Spiderweb<\/a> earlier this summer served as a wake-up call in modern warfighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The JCO made some headway<\/a> by narrowing the Pentagon\u2019s crowded field of more than three dozen drone defense prototypes to a handful of approved systems, running joint demonstrations at Yuma Proving Ground\u2014 which helped several companies gain traction in the military<\/a> \u2014 and establishing common training and testing protocols.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But critics say the office lacked the teeth to buy and deploy gear quickly and was hamstrung by the Pentagon\u2019s budget cycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new task force aims to fix that. JIATF 401 will be able to direct procurement decisions, allocate up to $50 million per initiative and hire outside the normal federal process to pull in technical experts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It will also consolidate work on drone forensics, exploitation and replication programs and tie into the Defense Innovation Unit\u2019s Replicator 2 initiative on mass-produced autonomous systems, according to the directive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, the task force will have 30 days after initiation to make recommendations on establishing a dedicated C-sUAS test and training range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reorganization is designed to compress timelines from years to months. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re moving fast \u2014 cutting through bureaucracy, consolidating resources, and empowering this task force with the utmost authority to outpace our adversaries,\u201d Hegseth said in a statement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new task force could help reshape a growing market projected to reach tens of billions of dollars over the next decade. Companies that won spots in JCO-sponsored demos, from directed-energy and high-power microwave<\/a> startups to electronic-warfare specialists, will now face a more centralized buyer with discretionary funding that could keep competition high and fast-paced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The task force will undergo a formal review after 36 months, giving Congress and the Pentagon a chance to assess whether the new organization delivers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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